NUMBER 104, MAY 3 - 9, 1995
HOTLINE TO HELP STREET CHILDREN
"Sasha," 11, is one of up to 80,000 homeless youngsters living on his wits in St Petersburg. Many are helped each day and night by European Community volunteers who have set up a shelter and provide hot meals. Now they have also launched a help hotline. Ring 542 63 25 to find out what can be done. Photo: Alexander Belenky. (Large jpg - 47K)
TOP STORIES
- City's Al Capone in court
Admirers crowded the public gallery and gleaming black Mercedes
automobiles waited outside as the reputed godfather of one of St Petersburg's
most feared mafia gangs came to trial.
- Surrogate mothers cash in
Women in St Petersburg are queuing up to enrol in Russia's first-ever
surrogate mother agency -- and the would-be mums stand to make $10,000 for
delivering the goods.
- Russian women say they can't get enough sex
Sweet 16 and never been kissed? Not in Russia, where a
new survey says one in 10 women in their 20s have slept with more than 26
men...and want more.
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